OpenAI’s Codex Model Shows Strange Reasoning Token Clustering at Exact Counts
GPT-5.5 inside OpenAI Codex frequently halts at exactly 516, 1034 or 1552 reasoning tokens, with data showing it accounts for 82% of such events despite handling only 19% of queries. Mean reasoning depth has dropped sharply. Developers combat the degradation with custom AGENTS.md prompts and task chunking, but the root cause stays unresolved. The pattern points to possible internal budgets or routing limits on complex coding work.
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